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Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The president's recent commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence turned a constitutional p...


Judges and Judiciary


Judge Launched Defense Attorneys Group

Jul. 10, 2007
By Jim Adamekn

SANTA ANA - Orange County Superior Court Judge Robert C. Todd, a founder of the Association of Southern California Defense Cou...


Firm Watch


Pacific Legal's Top Counsel Goes Solo

Jul. 10, 2007
By Dan Schechnern

Industry Watch - By Linda Rapattoni - SACRAMENTO - Anthony Caso, former chief counsel of the Pacific Legal Foundation, has ope...


Litigation


Web Exclusive - Three antitrust litigation partners at Bingham McCutchen have jumped ship for Perkins Coie, according to a sou...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Racism Is More Than Skin Deep

Jul. 10, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Forum Column - By Diane J. Klein - The Supreme Court didn't just get the ruling wrong in two recent school segregation cases; ...


Firm Watch


Watchdog Agency Taps New Chief

Jul. 10, 2007
By Dan Schechnern

Industry Watch - By Linda Rapattoni - SACRAMENTO - Amanda Saxton has been appointed chief of the enforcement division at the F...


Corporate


Lawyers who are caught deceiving the judge can't duck away from the courthouse into arbitration, a state appellate panel has h...


Criminal


Judge Pokes at Weakness in Backdating Case

Jul. 10, 2007
By Craig Anderson

The prosecution's case against former Brocade Communications Systems CEO Gregory Reyes in the first criminal stock options bac...


SAN FRANCISCO - Intellectual property lawyers and high-tech firms are counting on a new program that uses volunteers to reduce...


Government


Central District U.S.Attorneys Get Staff Boost

Jul. 10, 2007
By Jennifer Hammn

LOS ANGELES - Years of resource shortages have choked the U.S. attorney's office in the Central District of California, leadin...


Judicial Profile


Successful Bench Mark

Jul. 10, 2007
By Tim Hayn

William Murray has done well in Stockton, both in his ascension to the bench and in his role in the community, and the jurist ...


Judicial Profile


Kids First

Jul. 10, 2007
By Pat Alston

After his 'Brady Bunch' childhood and coaching his own children's teams, Commissioner Craig E. Arthur finds his child-support ...


Law Practice


Disciplinary Actions

Jul. 9, 2007
By Jim Adamekn

Resignations and Suspensions


Firm Watch


Industry Watch

Jul. 9, 2007
By Sarah Mcclure

On the Move


Environmental


San Francisco antitrust lawyer and surfer Paul Riehle visited the Mentawai Islands in Indonesia looking for “the best waves in...


Judicial Profile


Flourishing in Court and Garden

Jul. 7, 2007
By Amelia Hansenn

Over the past 23 years, Cynthia Holcomb Hall has left her mark on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — judicially and botan...


Education


LOS ANGELES - Immigration reform may be dead in Congress, but at UCLA School of Law the push to build up a strong immigration ...


SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer for the elected supervisor charged with faking where he lives says the city attorney's office has bun...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Employment Column - By Kirk Pasich - Employers should investigate thoroughly what coverage their insurance policies provide fo...


LOS ANGELES - A week after she was born, Violeta Lizette Herrera lost her father when he was gunned down by Buena Park police ...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Forum Column - By William F. Sullivan - The highest court in the land's favorable outlook on big business isn't simply a produ...


Verdicts


LOS ANGELES - This is a toy story, but a little less fun than the Disney film. In a verdict in Los Angeles federal court, a ju...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Forum Column - By John Manly - A recent clergy sexual-abuse case in Santa Barbara illustrates how members of the Roman Catholi...


Litigation


Web Exclusive - When San Francisco Police Chief Heather Fong discovered that one of her officers made an offensive home video ...


Arbitrator Profile


Construction-Law Neutral Owes It All to a Book

Jul. 7, 2007
By Rebecca U. Cho

LOS ANGELES - In the 2001 film "Serendipity," the free-spirited Sara, played by Kate Beckinsale, trusts that fate will lead he...


Litigation


L.A. Firefighter Wins $6.2 Million in Bias Suit

Jul. 7, 2007
By Jennifer Hammn

LOS ANGELES - Two days after a jury awarded a black lesbian firefighter $6.2 million in a discrimination case, it issued punit...


Criminal


Court Tosses Daughter's $1 Million Award

Jul. 7, 2007
By John Roemer

A woman whose father was killed in an industrial accident stood to become an instant millionaire after persuading a trial judg...


Corporate


Prosecution Wraps Up in Brocade Case

Jul. 7, 2007
By Craig Anderson

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal prosecutors hoping to persuade jurors to convict a former CEO of 10 felonies related to stock-options ...


Judges and Judiciary


Panel Assails Benefits for Judges

Jul. 7, 2007
By Amy Yarbroughn

SAN FRANCISCO - Just as San Bernardino County gets ready to welcome a bevy of new superior court judges, a grand jury has call...


Focus (Forum & Focus)


Construction Falsities

Jul. 7, 2007
By Troy Senikn

Focus Column - By Roland Nikles - A case in the California Supreme Court has created a sea change in the administration of the...